Woods Serves The Process (V16?)

The Grandpa Peabody Boulder, with the line of The Process (possible V16) at far right. Lucid Dreaming (V15) climbs left of Evilution. Photo by Andy Mann, courtesy of Kevin Jorgeson.

1/18/15 - Daniel Woods has completed a much-tried super-project on the Grandpa Peabody Boulder in California's Buttermilks. According to various reports, Woods called the new problem The Process. Woods confirmed that he sent the problem last night in a text to Björn Pohl at UK Climbing.

The so-called "mega proj" completes a trio of world-class routes on the severely overhanging and highball south face of the giant boulder: Lucid Dreaming (V15), Evilution Direct (V11), and now The Process, from left to right. The line has been a project for at least four years and has been attempted by Kevin Jorgeson, Carlo Traversi, Dan Beall, and other super-strong boulderers.

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The Process finishes an older problem called Social Distortion (a.k.a. Blood Meridian), a V13 put up by Matt Birch. This is a four-move problem to a flake, where the climber drops to the ground. Above this, The Process climbs another three moves at V14 to the lip, followed by a complex V10 slab sequence at least 20 feet off the ground and no-fall-zone climbing above. All in all, the route has been widely speculated to be V16.